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Published on 11/09/2026 – 15:49 GMT+2 The immobilised assets from the Russian Central Bank are not “the primary focus” at the moment, the European Commission said on Friday amid growing calls to channel the €210 billion into additional support for cash-strapped Ukraine. Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, backed by the Baltics, have asked the executive to devise new legal options to tap the assets. Ukraine has endorsed the initiative and pitched creating an EU-owned custodian to hold the assets kept at Euroclear, a depository in central Brussels. And this week, a cross-party group of 122 members of the European…
Atokos, a tiny private island in Greece’s Ionian Sea, has become a popular stop for visitors drawn by its unusual residents. Tourists arrive by boat to swim alongside Mediterranean black pigs, feed them fruit and watch them roam the beach. The island, sometimes called ‘Piggie Island’, has gained attention through viral social media videos. Visitors can be seen sitting on the beach with the pigs, taking selfies and entering the water as the animals swim around them. Underwater footage shows the pigs swimming alongside boats, sometimes following them in search of food. The island has become a destination for day…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 15:25 GMT+2 The last major data point before the Fed meets has arrived, and it arrived while Americans were paying record prices at the pump. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday afternoon that the annual rate held steady, with core inflation, which strips out food and energy, easing to 2.4% from 2.5%. Every figure matched the consensus of economists and the monthly number is where the pressure shows. Prices rose 0.4% in August against 0.1% in July, a fourfold acceleration and the fastest pace in three months. The annual rate stayed flat only…
Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD)’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluates 15-year-olds’ reading, mathematics and science abilities through a standardised test. The latest report, published on Tuesday, has revealed a concerning global decline in maths and reading skills in particular. Artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones and social media have been cited as contributing factors. “The bottom line is quite simple: You don’t get fit by watching sports. You get fit by doing sports,” Andreas Schleicher, the founder of the OECD’s renowned PISA tests, told Euronews. “And the same is true with learning. Learning doesn’t…
“Especially today, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, it is hard to believe that [she] would draw a direct parallel between The Western wall and the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem and the situation in Crimea, regardless of her personal worldview,” the mission said. The EU foreign policy chief has long backed a push from several member countries to pressure the European Commission to ban trade with territories illegally occupied by Israel — an issue that divides capitals and has become a flashpoint in the rift between Kallas and the Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen. Kallas’ backing has…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:46 GMT+2 The Hague and Madrid are pushing for an EU-wide minimum age for social media use, potentially extended to other online services, as the European Commission prepares to announce its own proposal next week. The social media ban should be harmonised and enforced at European level, and extended to video games, AI chatbots and other risky digital services, the two countries said in a non-paper circulated on Friday. Restricting minors’ access to social media has become an increasingly hot topic in the EU and beyond. France, Greece, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland and…
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By Toby Gregory, Euronews Dubai bureau Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:19 GMT+2 Azerbaijan’s state oil fund SOFAZ has joined five Asian sovereign and pension investors to launch the China-ASEAN Joint Investment Council at this week’s China International Fair for Investment and Trade in Xiamen, giving the Caspian fund a founding seat in a market of more than 2 billion people. The rest of the group spans from Beijing to Jakarta: China Investment Corporation (CIC), the sovereign wealth fund that convened the council, Thailand’s Government Pension Fund, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Berhad and pension fund KWAP, and the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA). Singapore’s…
Night, at the Neue Nationalgalerie, brings together several of Maurizio Cattelan’s best-known works alongside pieces created more recently, transforming Germany’s vast modernist Neue Nationalgalerie museum into a world of disturbing images and unexpected juxtapositions. Hitler on his knees Among the most striking works is Him, a 2001 sculpture depicting Adolf Hitler kneeling on the floor as if in prayer. From one angle, the figure appears to be a small, innocent-looking child. As visitors move around it, however, the face of Hitler is revealed. Him was created more than two decades ago, and sold for €15 million at auction in 2016.…
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